Eric Hoffer Quotes


83 quotes:

"We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true; they ruin our dreams."
Author: Hoffer Quotes Category: Dreams Quotes
"The wisdom of others remains dull till it is writ over with our own blood. We are essentially apart from the world; it bursts into our consciousness only when it sinks its teeth and nails into us."
Author: Hoffer Quotes Category: Wisdom Quotes
"When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths."
Author: Hoffer Quotes Category: Truth Quotes
"Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth"
Author: Hoffer Quotes Category: Truth Quotes
"It is a talent of the weak to persuade themselves that they suffer for something when they suffer from something; that they are showing the way when they are running away; that they see the light when they feel the heat; that they are chosen when they are shunned."
Author: Hoffer Quotes Category: Talent Quotes
"Youth itself is a talent / a perishable talent."
Author: Hoffer Quotes Category: Talent Quotes
"To the intellectual, America's unforgivable sin is that it has revolutions without revolutionaries, and achieves the momentous in a matter-of-fact way"
Author: Hoffer Quotes Category: Sin Quotes
"The short-lived self, teetering on the edge of extinction, is the only thing that can ever really matter"
Author: Hoffer Quotes Category: Self Quotes
"A successful social technique consists perhaps in finding unobjectionable means for individual self-assertion."
Author: Hoffer Quotes Category: Self Quotes Socializing And Socialism Quotes
"The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbor as ourselves: we do unto others as we do unto ourselves. We hate others when we hate ourselves. We are tolerant toward others when we tolerate ourselves. We forgive others when we forgive ourselves. We are prone to sacrifice others when we are ready to sacrifice ourselves."
Author: Hoffer Quotes Category: Sacrifice Quotes
"The main effect of a real revolution is perhaps that it sweeps away those who do not know how to wish, and brings to the front men with insatiable appetites for action, power and all that the world has to offer."
Author: Hoffer Quotes Category: Revolution Quotes Revolutions And Revolutionaries Quotes
"We need not only a purpose in life to give meaning to our existence but also something to give meaning to our suffering. We need as much something to suffer for as something to live for."
Author: Hoffer Quotes Category: Purpose Quotes
"Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect."
Author: Hoffer Quotes Category: Pride Quotes
"It is also plausible that those movements with the greatest inner contradiction between profession and practice-that is to say with a strong feeling of guilt-are likely to be the most fervent in imposing their faith on others"
Author: Hoffer Quotes Category: Practice Quotes
"The real persuaders are our appetites, our fears and above all our vanity. The skillful propagandist stirs and coaches these internal persuaders."
Author: Hoffer Quotes Category: Persuasion Quotes Vanity Quotes
"Nature is a self-made machine, more perfectly automated than any automated machine. To create something in the image of nature is to create a machine, and it was by learning the inner working of nature that man became a builder of machines."
Author: Hoffer Quotes Category: Nature Quotes
"It is part of the formidableness of a genuine mass movement that the self-sacrifice it promotes includes also a sacrifice of some of the moral sense which cramps and restrains our nature."
Author: Hoffer Quotes Category: Morality Quotes
"A soul that is reluctant to share does not as a rule have much of its own. Miserliness is here a symptom of meagerness."
Author: Hoffer Quotes Category: Soul Quotes Misers And Misery Quotes
"A great man's greatest good luck is to die at the right time."
Author: Hoffer Quotes Category: Luck Quotes
"Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible"
Author: Hoffer Quotes Category: Living Quotes

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